Originally Posted By: thseng
But doesn't if matter how the drives are formatted / what the operating system is? It look like many of these devices use a Linux based operating system. I'm running XP now, and probably also Windows 7 soon.

It depends more on the file system than the operating system. Linux is able to run on a number of file systems. If it is using the Journaling File System, you are in luck. I have accessed data from that file system with Windows. If it is using a different file system, you still may be able to boot from that drive.

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